Re: [CGUYS] router/accesspoint

2008-11-16 Thread David K Watson
You have to reconfigure the router to use wpa. Look at http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r17679150-Howto-make-ActionTec-MI424WR-a-network-bridge Follow the first part of the article directions for accessing the router configuration interface. Note that under the usual settings, you have to

Re: [CGUYS] How to forward email message to gmail?

2008-11-16 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:57 AM, db [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could set Google IMAP folders up in Thunderbird and then drag the excess/ older emails there and have the advantage of having them backed up at Google online also db Jeff Wright wrote: I'm using Thunderbird at work.

Re: [CGUYS] Best membership DB template / solution for small unskilled NP?

2008-11-16 Thread Gayley Knight
I agree that Tech Soup is a great resource. They have 2 groups on LinkedIn that you (or the nonprofit) could join for a lot more resources and help. /gayley knight twitter.com/mothergeek businessherway.net -Message- Check Tech Soup. They have a couple systems designed for

Re: [CGUYS] ridda aol yeecch!

2008-11-16 Thread Tom Piwowar
what shuddi tell her now? First tell her to not use Outlook. Moving from AOL to Outlook is just moving from one big bugfest to another big bugfest. Outlook offers nothing uniquely useful for a home user. * ** List info,

Re: [CGUYS] ridda aol yeecch!

2008-11-16 Thread Chris Dunford
First tell her to not use Outlook. Nonresponsive. The question was, how do I?. Outlook offers nothing uniquely useful for a home user. That's true, unless you count email, calendar/appointments/reminders, contacts, fax, mailing lists, tasks/to-do lists, RSS, and notes. My wife's life would

[CGUYS] dual core vs quad core processors

2008-11-16 Thread Fred Jones
I will be buying a new Dell computer next week and I'm a little confused about all of the new processors even after reading wikipedia articles so I thought I would ask you guys (always a big help in the past - THANKS very much and TIA here too!). So the question is - which processor would be

Re: [CGUYS] ridda aol yeecch!

2008-11-16 Thread Tony B
Sometimes the _correct_ answer isn't a _direct_ answer. Or the answer you want to hear. Minus the faxes (which is probably much easier to do with a fax machine), all these things can be done in any modern AJAX web mail client like Yahoo, Gmail, or AOL. Actually, I think they can all _send_ faxes

Re: [CGUYS] dual core vs quad core processors

2008-11-16 Thread Tony B
For office machines like you describe, the performance of a single core machine will be indistinguishable from a multi-core machine. The sweet spot price-wise right now is the dual cores, so get one of those. For your needs I wouldn't pay a penny extra for any more than that. That your newer

[CGUYS] Laptop computers for teens, tweens?

2008-11-16 Thread Richardson, Sharon Y.
HELP! My teen (soon to leave for college) and my tween want Dell Inspiron laptop computers (the ones that come in all the cool colors -- thank you Dell TV advertising blitz!). Problem is, Dell only sells those with Microsoft Vista (soon to be abandoned by Microsoft in favor of Windows 7).

Re: [CGUYS] Laptop computers for teens, tweens?

2008-11-16 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Talk with Dell. Stewart At 02:25 PM 11/16/2008, you wrote: HELP! My teen (soon to leave for college) and my tween want Dell Inspiron laptop computers (the ones that come in all the cool colors -- thank you Dell TV advertising blitz!). Problem is, Dell only sells those with Microsoft Vista

Re: [CGUYS] ridda aol yeecch!

2008-11-16 Thread RLeeSimon
Then wat? I need also to change her browser ...she's got win2k and it doesn't allow upgrade to ie7 so wassabest? Firefox,mozilla,opera(which has an email client in it)? -Original Message- From: Tom Piwowar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 10:41 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [CGUYS] Best membership DB template / solution for small unskilled NP?

2008-11-16 Thread db
Thanks. I requested to join the two TechSoup groups. db Gayley Knight wrote: I agree that Tech Soup is a great resource. They have 2 groups on LinkedIn that you (or the nonprofit) could join for a lot more resources and help. /gayley knight twitter.com/mothergeek businessherway.net

Re: [CGUYS] ridda aol yeecch!

2008-11-16 Thread RLeeSimon
Yeah but she already has a lotta emails stored in her file cabinet in aol and wants to keep them...somewhere. She can keep the aol email addresses, but has already started a gmail account which works for her. -Original Message- From: Tony B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday,

Re: [CGUYS] Laptop computers for teens, tweens?

2008-11-16 Thread Tony B
It's possible, but I think unlikely that you'll see Windows 7 on the shelf next Christmas, so you're looking at two years. That's a long time in computers, and hardly makes the current Windows version soon to be abandoned. Even if they do make the 10/1/09 release date, it's still a whole year

Re: [CGUYS] Laptop computers for teens, tweens?

2008-11-16 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Take any flavor of vista over and above the basic one. I was visiting and educational discount software vendor who had vista ultimate for just over 100. Stewart At 03:16 PM 11/16/2008, you wrote: It's possible, but I think unlikely that you'll see Windows 7 on the shelf next Christmas, so

Re: [CGUYS] ridda aol yeecch!

2008-11-16 Thread Tom Piwowar
Nonresponsive. The question was, how do I?. Who's really being Nonresponsive? If you were doing this to yourself that would be another matter. We might laugh at your quaint ideas, but since you were only hurting yourself we would let you go ahead. We might even help you do it as a source of

Re: [CGUYS] ridda aol yeecch!

2008-11-16 Thread Tom Piwowar
Yeah but she already has a lotta emails stored in her file cabinet in aol and wants to keep them...somewhere. She can keep the aol email addresses, but has already started a gmail account which works for her. X will fetch email (old and new) from Y. It does contacts too. Substitute AOL Yahoo!

Re: [CGUYS] ridda aol yeecch!

2008-11-16 Thread Tom Piwowar
I need also to change her browser ...she's got win2k and it doesn't allow upgrade to ie7 so wassabest? Firefox,mozilla,opera(which has an email client in it)? The current version of FireFox (v 3) works fine with Win2K. You may have gotten ridda of AOL, but you still have that Microsoft monkey

Re: [CGUYS] ridda aol yeecch!

2008-11-16 Thread mike
address book to outlook. http://blog.kevindonahue.com/archives/2004/03/12/convert_aol_address_book_to_outlook/ this should help moving email to outlook. http://email.about.com/od/outlooktips/qt/et122204.htm Mike On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:31 PM, RLeeSimon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my sister has

Re: [CGUYS] Laptop computers for teens, tweens?

2008-11-16 Thread Tom Piwowar
HELP! My teen (soon to leave for college) and my tween want Dell Inspiron laptop computers (the ones that come in all the cool colors -- thank you Dell TV advertising blitz!). Problem is, Dell only sells those with Microsoft Vista (soon to be abandoned by Microsoft in favor of Windows 7). I

Re: [CGUYS] dual core vs quad core processors

2008-11-16 Thread Tom Piwowar
For office machines like you describe, the performance of a single core machine will be indistinguishable from a multi-core machine... Absolutely! Intel has been stuck, unable to boost the performance of its processors. So they pull this multi-core PR trick. Multi-core if of benefit only in

Re: [CGUYS] ridda aol yeecch!

2008-11-16 Thread Chris Dunford
Nonresponsive. The question was, how do I?. Who's really being Nonresponsive? If you were doing this to yourself that would be another matter. We might laugh at your quaint ideas, but since you were only hurting yourself we would let you go ahead. We might even help you do it as a source of

Re: [CGUYS] ridda aol yeecch!

2008-11-16 Thread Tom Piwowar
Not really. The question was How do I move the AOL mail to Outlook. Period. Your response was, Outlook sux. If you had other options to suggest, fine--make them. You didn't. The response has zero value. It did not help the questioner in any way. That's my point. Friends don't let friends drive

Re: [CGUYS] ridda aol yeecch!

2008-11-16 Thread RLeeSimon
Don't fight boys...I just wanna helpout my sis... -Original Message- From: Chris Dunford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 5:57 PM Subject: Re: ridda aol yeecch! Nonresponsive. The question was, how do I?. Who's really being Nonresponsive? If you were doing

[CGUYS] delivery/read receipts

2008-11-16 Thread RLeeSimon
I have outlookXP2002sp3 and I setup to get my gmail ...I have it set to request receipts but I'm not gettin'em ...wassamattah? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness,

[CGUYS] Off the shelf Intel CPUs in a Mac Pro ?

2008-11-16 Thread rocky lee
Since the shift to Intel Processors, is it a simple matter to swap off the shelf Intel CPUs onto a Mac Pro motherboard (or any Mac that uses an Intel Processors for that matter) ? (After the warranty has expired) * **

Re: [CGUYS] ridda aol yeecch!

2008-11-16 Thread Fred Holmes
Install them all and see which you like. Chevy? Ford? Pontiac? Toyota? Ferrari? Depends Mainly on whether she likes to see all the controls that can be tweaked, or likes to keep them hidden and accept default behavior. At 03:51 PM 11/16/2008, RLeeSimon wrote: I need also to change her

Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 16 Nov 2008 - Special issue (#2008-762)

2008-11-16 Thread RLeeSimon
I sometimes require accented alpha for creation of a doc in French ...character map is such a miserable hassle and incomplete (no Euro symbol €, for instance) ...is there a little popup that would let me customize a little collection of special characters (not the giant list of char map) so I can

Re: [CGUYS] delivery/read receipts

2008-11-16 Thread Fred Holmes
At 07:28 PM 11/16/2008, RLeeSimon wrote: I have outlookXP2002sp3 and I setup to get my gmail ...I have it set to request receipts but I'm not gettin'em ...wassamattah? Receipts are not automatic. They are at the discretion of the recipient. I kill 99-100% of them. If I think the correspondent

Re: [CGUYS] dual core vs quad core processors

2008-11-16 Thread Jeff Wright
Absolutely! Intel has been stuck, unable to boost the performance of its processors. So they pull this multi-core PR trick. Multi-core if of benefit only in certain situations and depends on the OS and applications developers writing code that divides work among the cores. Often they don't

Re: [CGUYS] delivery/read receipts

2008-11-16 Thread Eric S. Sande
Receipts are not automatic. They are at the discretion of the recipient. I kill 99-100% of them. If I think the correspondent deserves a receipt, I send a message with content, not one of the automatic receipts. Some folks seem to want a receipt for every message they send no matter what

Re: [CGUYS] delivery/read receipts

2008-11-16 Thread Richard P.
Same for me. About the only receipts I ever returned were in response to an email from my boss or someone that I was dealing with professionally. All others got a message in return. Have you tried sending a message to yourself (at an address other than Gmail), to see if it works? Richard P. I

Re: [CGUYS] delivery/read receipts

2008-11-16 Thread Tony B
Oddly, someone told me this week that PHPBB (a web forum) has it's PM return receipts on by default, and there's no way to turn them off. I'm not sure I believe that, but it turned out to be an interesting concept. How it works: Send a PM. It sits in your outbox until the recipient reads it. It's

[CGUYS] quad core graphics?

2008-11-16 Thread Tony B
Okay, I can't let this pass. Our video editors don't edit one whit faster on a multi core system, so what is it about this guy that makes him think he can finish projects quicker? I mean, can he offer specific examples? On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 16 Nov 2008 - Special issue (#2008-762)

2008-11-16 Thread Tony B
The euro symbol should be available in an updated system simply by typing 0128 (with the numpad, numlock on, alt key held down). If you don't get it you've got something set up wrong. You should see it in Character Map as well. You can use any macro program to type these keystrokes for you.

Re: [CGUYS] Laptop computers for teens, tweens?

2008-11-16 Thread Ellen Rains Harris
Look on Dell's small business page. You can still buy computers from there with XP for a small fee. Ellen Harris - Original Message - From: Richardson, Sharon Y. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 3:25 PM Subject: [CGUYS] Laptop

Re: [CGUYS] quad core graphics?

2008-11-16 Thread Jeff Wright
I can't give you exact details, I only have to go on what he tells me. He typically works with multi-hundred MB graphic files that open and save much more quickly, as well as conversion work, such as saving one of these files to a different file format or a pdf, takes less time. He's shown me

Re: [CGUYS] COMPUTERGUYS-L Digest - 16 Nov 2008 - Special issue (#2008-762)

2008-11-16 Thread Ellen Rains Harris
Change your default keyboard to US English International You can do that by 1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel. 2. Under Pick a category, click Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options. 3. Under or pick a Control Panel icon, click Regional and Language Options.

Re: [CGUYS] ridda aol yeecch!

2008-11-16 Thread b_s-wilk
I have an AIM account that I got a few years ago. AOL gave free POP/IMAP email accounts to AIM users. Her AOL account probably also has POP/IMAP access. Try this setup: Incoming mail server: * imap.aol.com or imap.aim.com for IMAP * pop.aol.com or pop.aim.com for POP Outgoing mail

Re: [CGUYS] quad core graphics?

2008-11-16 Thread Vicky Staubly
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Jeff Wright wrote: I can't give you exact details, I only have to go on what he tells me. He typically works with multi-hundred MB graphic files that open and save much more quickly, as well as conversion work, such as saving one of these files to a different file format or